I was eating breakfast with a magazine spread before me. This time, it was the new slick that the Wall Street Journal bundles with its paper. I’m looking at this story, somehow involving a woman and an exercise bike. I forget anything beyond that.

“What is she doing?” my three-year-old asks.

“She’s riding an exercise bike,” I reply.

“I think she’s in bed,” he says.

“Uh huh,” I respond in that recognition that he’s being imaginative and contrarian as three-year-olds are when they’re not sleeping and sometimes when they’re eating.

Then I glanced at the left hand page.

(UPDATE: John wants a NSFW label on this post. I initially didn’t put one on it because it was SFWSJ. However, in hope of getting more traffic, here it is: Potentially NSFW. That made you click the Read More link even faster, didn’t it?)

“I guess you’re right, she is in bed,” I say.

“What is she doing?” the boy asks.

“She’s sleeping on high quality bedding,” I say.

“She doesn’t have any clothes on,” the boy says. “She’s in the air.”

“She shouldn’t be bouncing on the bed like that,” I impart the important lesson and turn the page.

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Hey, I have no problem with the ad personally. I wish more products would use tasteful nudes. Not that I would buy them, mind you; I was looking for a handmade high-quality bed anyway, and I was convinced when I saw the two nude women ads on Hastens.com (NSFW, pleats). This is something worth purchasing, no matter the cost!

Take note, other advertisers. Tasteful, fantastic nudes. Please put them in Birds and Blooms, The National Review, and eWeek, the magazines I read regularly.

Wait, scratch that. I read those magazines where my children are watching. Instead, please buy ads on this site, which no one but me (and sometimes John) sees.

Well, after the National Review‘s swimsuit issue fiasco, I doubt that they’ll start doing fully nude ads. At least, not those featuring NR writers. I hear that even the more well thought-out The Girls of College Republicans photobook project has been canceled. A pity.